Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-15
Household.

Women have been charged with want
of inventive genius, and any attempted
reputation of the charge on their part is
at once siIenced by calling attention to
the manner of carrying on work in their
peculiar province. Man compelled to
labor at once seeks out some invention to
lift the burden from his shoulders, while
women, who work at their domestic
drudgeries, toll on in much the same
way as did their foremothels. There are
several good reasons for this deficiency in
the household, and it may be word
from THE GAZETTE will give the
good wife courage to talk it over
with the husband, who sometimes
fails to appreciate the meaning of
the title he assumed at marriage
Primarily, women as a rule are not full
partners in the company, they are not
even salaried employees, but stand rather
in the attitude of suppliants, who must
use tact and diplomacy to unIoose the
common purse strings for those things
which are necessities. Any little con-
venience for Tightening a woman's labor
requires either an expenditure of money
or of mechanical effort and neither of
these are often willingly bestowed by the
husband for such purpose. The average
woman has more skill in the management
of money than is believed by man, and
had she control of means to carry out
her plans, by careful management she
would soon have many conYeniences to
her home. Her mind once turned upon
such work and having the con-
seriousness of ability to forward
her ideas there would be no
lack of cupboards here, shelves there,
with accompanying drawers, high chair
to sit on when she must iron, cooking
stove elevated on zinc platform to save
STOPPING, ventIlators above to carry off
the heat, and the thousand and one sug-
gestions which an active brain could
supply in order to save weary body. II
men would cease to scout at modern i'm
proyements in the house, learn to re-
gard the wife as thoroughly capable in
her department, as he presumes himself
to be in his, and cease to expect that the
demands of an artificial society can be
met by the primitive methods of his
mother and grandmother, there would be
less outlay in the direction of building up
WORKOUT and dispirited wives. Women
as financiers, have much to learn for the
4OdSOh sAoU uISOSCu kdCulGl
always becomes weakened, if not
wholly destroyed, but if men
who have wives and daughters will give
them a right to stipulated sums, women
will soon manifest talent for finance,
the existence of which has not been sus-
pected. Let the phrase of the marriage
service, "With all my worldly goods 1
thee endoW," cease to be meaningless;
at least let it mean this much, that the
woman has right to a share of these,
which she may control unrestrained and
unquestioned.
And now girls of the household, get
yourselves ready for this husband of the
future; in due time he will be developed,
and you on your part must be thoroughly
cognizsnt of your duties. Learn bust
ness, learn it; be sure you do that; fit
yourselves for doing without him, and
then he will seek you out. Come into
the busy mart Of life armed cap-a-pie for
all its contests, and if stronger arm
reaches out to help you in the struggle
the consciousness of your own strength
will not in the least mar the
unity of the marriage relation.
Strong arms sometimes grow weak and
brave hearts lose courage, and then, if
not before, you will prize that foresight
which led you to qualify yourself for tax
ing the helm. Even on the untroubled
sea of domestic life the boat is better
when each recognizes the 9th
er's capsbility. Learn to handle figures
and measurements as familiar things, and
be as well qualified in profit and loss as If
you were to manage the finances of bus
mess house. In this way you will be en-
abled to command respect and so order
the ways of your household that even men
shall be compelled to admire your wis
dom.
Under the head of kitchen economics q
few practical recipes are submitted to the
young housekeeper who perceives that it
will not do to drop off the fractions when
for q satisfactory total.
RECIPES.
Sliced beets-Do not prick or cut the
skin in any way, IS if this is done they
lose color. Put into boiling water and
boil two hours. Peel, slice and season
with salt, pepper and tablespoonful of
nelte d butter. Serve very hot.
Brown thickening for soups-Put into
/ small saucepan half 8 pound of butter;
when hot stir into it half a pound of very
Try floor; stir this over the fire till pale